From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:10:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: use backticks rather than $() notation to support ancient shells
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808060208450.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <K5bb057jTokXyOIU_aDE4vMr3jT4DOgSPRcIktfus6QMVq6dszrgGw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Otherwise, should we set the SHELL variable to the configured SHELL_PATH 
> at some point in the Makefile?

I think that would make more sense, especially since it would catch 
wrong SHELL_PATH early.

Maybe we can even have some sanity check that tests if SHELL_PATH groks 
$()?

Ciao,
Dscho